Modern Slavery
Statement

SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING STATEMENT AS REQUIRED UNDER S54 OF THE
MODERN SLAVERY ACT1 FOR THE 2021/22 FINANCIAL YEARINTRODUCTION FROM CHRISTIAN SCHREYER, GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVEThe Go-Ahead Group Limited and its subsidiaries (“Go-Ahead”/ “us”/ “we”/ “our”/ the “Group”)
are committed to ensuring that all of its business dealings are carried out in full compliance with
relevant laws and, in doing so, we endorse the implementation and promotion of ethicalbusiness practices to protect workers from being abused and exploited both within Go-Aheadand its supply chains. Go-Ahead are committed to improving our practices to combat slavery
and human trafficking and we have continued to take steps during the 2021/22 Financial Yearto promote and improve our ongoing commitment to eliminating abuse and exploitation in theworkplace.
A)

GO-AHEAD'S STRUCTURE
The subsidiaries of The Go-Ahead Group Limited are providers of public transport
services,predominantly in the UK Bus and Rail sectors. The Go-Ahead Group Limited
has its registered office in Newcastle, England, and has over 27,000 employees. GoAhead is owned by the Australian transport operator Kinetic and the Spanish transport
infrastructure company Globalvia. Many of our subsidiaries in the UK had a turnover inexcess of £36 million during the 2021/22 Financial Year, this Statement applies to themand they are listed in Annex 3.We also apply the principles contained in this Statement
on a voluntary basis to other subsidiaries in the UK whose turnover is less than £36m
and overseas subsidiaries which have no equivalent legislation in their local jurisdiction.
The Statement has been endorsed, approved and adopted by The Go-Ahead Group
Limited and each of the relevant Group subsidiaries listed in Annex 3 to this Statement
and it ismade available on their respective websites where there is an obligation to doso.

B)

OUR BUSINESSThe Group operates a devolved operating structure, with multiple subsidiaries.
However, procurement is one of the support functions which is, primarily, provided
centrally, affording the Group’s significant control over the supply chain of its
subsidiaries.

C)

OUR SUPPLY CHAIN
Our supply chain includes manufacturing, primarily of bus and rail vehicles, parts,uniforms, indirect goods and services and outsourced IT hardware and software
services. Policy and process is led by the Group centralised function and we

1 References in this Statement to the “Act” are references to the “Modern Slavery Act 2015”.

implement the due diligence and contractual processes which are referred to below togive effect to Go-Ahead’s anti-slavery and trafficking policy.
D)

OUR POLICIES ON SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING
We are committed to preventing acts of modern slavery or human trafficking in oursupply chain and/or in any part of our business. Our anti-slavery policy reflects ourcommitment to acting ethically and with integrity in all of our business relationships andto implementing and enforcing effective due diligence and contractual compliance toprevent slavery and human trafficking in our supply chain.

E)

DUE DILIGENCE PROCESSES FOR SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Each year the Group assesses the risk of its susceptibility to modern slavery andtrafficking in its business and its supply chain, with the most recent assessment
undertaken for the Financial Year 2021/22. We continue to believe that those areas,
which carry the highest susceptibility to the risk of employing slave or trafficked labour,are manufacturing processes or other processes where low skilled labour is required
e.g. cleaning, security, building and maintenance works, waste management andclothing.

F)

SUPPLIER ADHERENCE TO OUR VALUES
We have zero tolerance for slavery and human trafficking. Part of our commitment toprevent modern slavery and human trafficking from occurring within our business or our
supply chain is to take steps to make sure that we include contractual terms withsuppliers which reference their obligation to abide with our anti-slavery and trafficking
policy or their own equivalent. This provides us with a way to enforce requirements orcease doing business with organisations which are non-compliant.
We have been independently assessed and accredited as working in compliance withISO 20400 the “Sustainable Procurement” standard. We include questions relating tocompliance with the Modern Slavery Act as part of our pre-qualification questionnaire
and in our tenders for all new suppliers and these are monitored as part of oursustainability KPIs.
We also operate a “Sustainable Procurement Charter” (the “Charter”) following a heatmapping exercise with our key high-risk suppliers. The Charter covers many areas ofsustainability in our supply chain including modern slavery compliance and sets out thesteps we are taking to reduce its occurrence in our supply chain. The Charter ispublished on our website.

G)

TRAINING
A targeted programme of online training took place during the Financial Year 2020/21
and an updated programme was launched in 2021/22. Colleagues who commence theiremployment with Go-Ahead in between those periods had access to the online training.
Awareness campaigns have and will continue to form part of our efforts to highlight theslavery and human trafficking issues amongst our colleagues. All Go-Ahead colleagues
also have access to the Modern Slavery Policy and the Group Whistleblowing Policy
which allows them to identify and report any legitimate concerns that they may have
without recrimination and in a confidential and secure manner.

H)

REPORTING ON FINANCIAL YEAR 2021/22
1)

Annex 1 sets out the steps taken in the Financial Year 2021/222)

Annex 2 sets out plans for the Financial Year 2022/23

This statement has been approved by The Go-Ahead Group Limited Board of Directors and ismade pursuant to section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, and constitutes the Group’s
slavery and human trafficking statement for the Financial Year 2021/22

Christian Schreyer
Group Chief Executive
The Go-Ahead Group Limited
Date: 21 October 2022

ANNEX 1: 2021/22 STEPS TAKEN
Due Diligence.
We have continued to include pre-qualifying questions for tenders and terms and conditions inour contracts with suppliers which require compliance with the Act. Compliance with the Actforms part of our continued adherence to and our achievement of International Organisation forStandardisation (ISO) 20400 “Sustainable Procurement”, in which we were independently
assessed. This includes an external assessment of our sustainability. Existing clauses in ourstandard procurement terms were augmented with requirements from our Charter to enhance
the strength of our contractual promises from suppliers in the area of modern slavery andhuman trafficking.
Training and awareness
Our Modern Slavery Policy is available on our intranet along with information about how toreport issues, so that guidance is available to staff who may have concerns. We have a facility
to provide computer-based training to new colleagues and are able to run awarenesscampaigns, where required, so that recognising a slavery or human trafficking issue,
understanding different types of slavery and human trafficking and how to report a concern are
more widely known.

ANNEX 2: 2022/23 PLANS
Due Diligence
We will continue to undertake the due diligence steps described in sections C, D and in ANNEX
1 in the coming financial year.
Training and awarenessTraining will continue to be part of the mandatory compliance programme and will be provided in
the 2022/23 Financial Year. We will look to create and publicise awareness campaigns in order toensure that slavery and human trafficking issues are publicised. All relevant staff will be trained andequipped with the knowledge to identify slavery and human trafficking, to understand different typesof slavery and trafficking and how to report a concern.

ANNEX 3: Group Statement - subsidiaries for whom the Group is legally obliged to report
The UK subsidiaries of The Go-Ahead Group Limited which had a turnover of £36m, or higher,
during the financial year ended 2 July 2022 are noted below (the “Relevant Subsidiaries”). TheRelevant Subsidiaries have each endorsed, approved and adopted this Group Statement,
copies of which can be found on their dedicated websites.
Go North East Limited
London General Transport Limited
Brighton & Hove Bus & Coach Company Limited
The City of Oxford Motor Services Limited
Go South Coast Limited
Govia Thameslink Railway Limited
Plymouth Citybus Limited